
Regulatory spotlight: Revolutionising e-commerce payments
Regulatory changes in BNPL, cVRPs, and digital wallets aim to boost e-commerce innovation and competition while safeguarding consumer protection and market stability.

Regulatory changes in BNPL, cVRPs, and digital wallets aim to boost e-commerce innovation and competition while safeguarding consumer protection and market stability.

The move to ISO 20022 brings benefits like enriched data and improved fraud prevention, requiring a strategic approach and decisions between building in-house solutions or partnering with vendors.

Swift’s updated CSP and IAF are essential for ensuring robust cybersecurity and compliance across the global banking community.

Enhancing the FCA’s complaints reporting process aims to swiftly identify consumer harm, improve regulatory compliance, and streamline operations for financial firms.

The FCA’s controversial ‘name-and-shame’ policy has sparked significant industry backlash, raising concerns over market stability and reputational damage.

The Consumer Rights Act 2015 aimed to unify UK consumer protections, but rapid digital advances in banking have necessitated a stronger focus on fraud protection.

The FCA’s final quarterly authorisations metrics for 2023-2024 reveal high efficiency and effectiveness in meeting statutory targets, though some areas require better application quality.

The Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) highlights the need for improved governance and collaboration to drive innovation and address regulatory challenges in the UK’s payments industry

Discover how programmable money could revolutionise finance with automation and efficiency, while exploring the ethical dilemmas it poses around privacy and potential misuse

IOSCO’s new policy recommendations aim to create a unified global framework for regulating digital assets and cryptocurrencies, enhancing market integrity and investor protection.

The UK and EU are set to implement Confirmation of Payee (CoP) and Verification of Payee (VoP) by 2025 to enhance payment security by verifying account details to reduce fraud and errors.

Initial assessments of the FCA’s Consumer Duty show that while financial firms have made positive strides in improving practices for consumer outcomes, further improvements and deeper integrations are necessary.

How regulatory reforms and increased capital can drive UK fintech expansion One of the first questions any fintech founder or investor asks is how it will be regulated. Regulation affects

The UK and EU payments sectors continued to draw increasing regulatory scrutiny throughout 2023. Indeed, the need to deliver compliance with new regimes, such as the consumer duty in the UK, required a great deal of firm’s attention and resources throughout the year.

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The Payments Association is pleased with the declaration released from the recent summit on artificial intelligence (AI) at Bletchley Park, which saw global leaders, tech executives, and academics address the challenges and advancements of the technology.

Join our Financial Services Regulatory Group experts on Tuesday, 3 October 2023 as they discuss recent developments about the Mansion House Reforms presented by the Chancellor in July 2023 and what

Eduard Stringer, director of product management for Europe at FIS, explains why he believes the EU needs to step up and ensure regulation supports the needs of payments businesses and consumers.

With uncertainty over the future of regulating BNPL products, Payments Review examined the current status, the impact of any legislation and what protection three of the UK’s largest providers have in place.

Latest data shows that the regulator’s authorisation of payments and e-money firms is lagging so far behind, it’s rated red against statutory targets.

DIGISEQ recently commissioned Consult Hyperion to do a whitepaper, podcast and webinar on SCA PSD2, in this piece we address the issue of SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) in Passive Wearables.

DIGISEQ recently commissioned Consult Hyperion to do a whitepaper on SCA PSD2, in this piece we address the issue of SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) in Passive Wearables. Rules are in

DIGISEQ recently commissioned Consult Hyperion to do a podcast on SCA PSD2, in this piece we address the issue of SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) in Passive Wearables. Rules are in

DIGISEQ recently commissioned Consult Hyperion to do a webinar on SCA PSD2, in this piece we address the issue of SCA (Strong Customer Authentication) in Passive Wearables. Rules are in

Chris Hemsley, managing director of the Payment Services Regulator (PSR), says the watchdog’s plan will be published by the end of June 2023.

The Payments Association’s Project Regulator has created a five-step checklist for firms that have fallen behind on preparing for the new rules.

Lucinity’s Francisco Mainez outlines how technology can help businesses prepare and comply with the new rules, which are due to come into force in July.

Should payment firms be limited in how they reuse data or are the laws based on GDPR sufficient?

The Payments Association’s Riccardo Tordera and Robert Courtneidge examine what the latest government consultations could mean for the UK payments sector.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) needs to be reviewed to allow legitimate data tracking and sharing to tackle financial crime, say industry experts.

The Payments Association’s Project Regulator working group will continue to engage with the FCA in 2023 to ensure members can thrive in the UK payments market.

Many firms still haven’t had the opportunity to drill down on the implications that the Consumer Duty has on their business. A recent webinar outlines the key steps to take.

Today, The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its finalised rules on the new consumer duty, which aims to “fundamentally improve how firms serve consumers”. The FCA states that the

Check out this recent Financial IT interview featuring Currencycloud’s Co-Founder & VP Strategic Partnerships, Stephen Lemon and ComplyAdvantage’s Founder and CEO Charles Delingpole as they discuss all things Fintech.
Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG9JlvilL10

The FCA and PSR have published a joint response to the Cash Action Group’s (CAG) announcement that retail banks and building societies will create an independent body to assess the cash needs

Join VIXIO PaymentsCompliance and guest speakers to learn about how to tap into the opportunities in five key growth markets, and how to overcome the challenges.

In line with recommendations made in the Kalifa review, the FCA has committed to introducing a new Regulatory Scalebox to ensure that high growth firms have the appropriate support and oversight. The FCA also committed to providing stronger regulatory oversight for newly authorised firms in its Business Plan. As part of this commitment they are inviting Payments Association members to join them at one of their 2 virtual workshops running on 22nd and 29th September. These workshops will be particularly valuable for members that are either currently experiencing rapid growth and scale, have experienced this in the past, or are newly regulated.

– What is Behavioral Biometric Analysis?
– What is a BionicID™?
– What makes Revelock’s BionicID™ solution unique in fraud prevention?
– How can BionicIDs™ be used to stop Impersonation and Manipulation attacks?
– What is BionicID™ analysis best suited for?
– Does BionicID™ data collection or analysis impact the User Experience (UX)?

– Introduction
– Deep fakes
– SIM swap scams
– SMS OTP fraud
– Session hijacking via RATs
– Originality is key

– Introduction
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– Know Your User
– Automating fraud response
– Conclusion

What are the top priorities, challenges, opportunities and risks for compliance and risk executives in 2022? VIXIO PaymentsCompliance is running its annual Trends and Priorities Survey to gain insight on just that.

One of the most discussed subjects in the industry today is how digital has transformed banking and financial services. And of course this has been even further amplified by the Coronavirus pandemic.

The UK authorized payment institution Monneo joins the ‘Accept my IBAN’ coalition of European companies to tackle corporate rejection of SPayments Association-enabled IBANs for payments and direct debits.

Discover Global Network, an international payment network, certified the Netcetera ACS for Diners Discover Network card transactions. Certified with all major card networks, the access control server improves user experience and promotes secure and frictionless transaction authentication worldwide.

The proposed anti-money laundering (AML) authority (AMLA) will be a gamechanger for the supervision of AML efforts in the European Union, experts in the field have told VIXIO.

Cybertonica are areintensifying their partnership with @W2GlobalData, global experts of regulatory compliance technology to bolster combined regtech and fraud offerings to multiply the value & benefits to all their shared & new clients!

On 22 June 2021, HM Treasury (HMT) confirmed that it will take forward legislation to introduce a gateway for the approval of financial promotions of unauthorised persons. Once the gateway is in place, only firms which have successfully applied to the FCA to approve financial promotions will be permitted to approve the financial promotions of unauthorised persons.
Compliance with regulatory requirements regarding the approval of financial promotions has been a recent supervisory concern for the FCA, especially in circumstances where the products being marketed are complex and targeted at the retail market, and the FCA has issued a number of letters and publications setting out concerns and guidance for authorised firms approving financial promotions

To make it easier for members of the The Payments Association to navigate the evolving landscape of payments regulation, the Payments Association and Eversheds Sutherland are providing you with a resource that will keep you on track. The Payments Regulatory Roadmap is designed to give an overview of the areas of payments regulation that our members should be anticipating in the next two years and to know the next steps and action required. And to help you prioritise what is of critical importance and what is less impactful.



